Are generics removed by the compiler at compile time

Question

In this tutorial on reflection it states:

[...] because generics are implemented via type erasure which removes all information regarding generic typ

Answer 1

In java, Generics is just a place holder. Java Run Time doesn't have any clue about the generics. It's all a compile time trick.

Setting up generics is exactly similar to the scenario, when you declare a field attribute in a class as

• Object (When you just declare type as T)
• MyObject (When you declare type as T extends MyObject).

After compilation, all would be wired according to the types. That's what is known as Type Erasure.